Re: [PATCH] x86-64, vsyscalls: Rename UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS to COMPAT_VSYSCALLS

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On 6 Jun 2011 at 12:24, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > CONFIG_UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS was added in the previous patch as a
> > > temporary hack to avoid penalizing users who don't build glibc from
> > > git.
> > 
> > I really hate that name.
> > 
> > Do you have *any* reason to call this "unsafe"?
> 
> No, there's no reason at all for that. That naming is borderline 
> security FUD and last time i saw the series i considered renaming
> it but got distracted :-)

security FUD? for real? ;) does that mean that you guys would accept a patch
that would map the vdso at a fixed address for old times's sake? if not, on
what grounds would you refuse it? see, you can't have it both ways.

the fixed address of the vsyscall page *is* a very real security problem, it
should have never been accepted as such and it's high time it went away finally
in 2011AD.

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